there is more to life!

there is more to life!
live life according to the mission God puts in your heart!

Saturday, December 13, 2008

new blog: the over oceans blog

http://overoceansblog.blogspot.com/

thats the URL.

I'm praying that the Lord will use this new blog to track my travels following Him all over the world. It's so exciting just to know who Jesus is!

I hope that you will read, pray, and join me in changing the world with the hope of Christ!

Friday, August 1, 2008

my utmost desire

to change

to bring glory to Your name

to become the man i was created to be

to sing the songs i was created to sing

to say the words i was created to speak

to trust in the truth i was made to believe

to say thank you for what ive been given

to find joy in everything

to love the way you love

to give more than enough

to walk the streets of heaven

to sing praises at Your feet

to share the wisdom Youve given

to become more like you and less like me

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

A W Tozer:

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, `Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.' Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

my friend Jen sent me this. . .

I just wanted to share with ya something that I heard Sunday morning that was so awesome, such an encouragement!! We had a guest speaker yesterday, he told us a story of how he met this woman who was trying to explain to him about the drug Prozac that she used to take. As he was listening to her explain this drug to him, how it works..he started to see the overall picture behind her story. She explained to him that she has this disease that forms tumors on all of her nerve endings, is extremely painful, most of the time unbearable. She then explained that when she takes this medication (Prozac) it basicly numbs her brain, her ability to think clearly, make right decisions. Through talking to her more he realizes that this woman is a Christian, she said that what hurts the most is that it disables her ability to please her Lord, obey Him and make choices that are centered around Him. So, because she felt like she wasn't able to please the Lord the way she needed to, she decided to stop taking her medication, suffer through the pain so that she could please her Lord!! Is that powerful stuff or what?! After hearing that I thought...if this woman was willing to suffer in order to please, obey her Lord then we, as perfectly healthy individuals have no reason or excuse to ever stop striving to please, obey our Lord and Heavenly Father! Also, I mean if this woman was able to make such a sacrifice as that in order to do what's right, obey God..then that just proves how important it is for us as Christians to strive to please the Lord! I hope this was as much an encouragement to you as it was to me..pass it on to somebody else too so they can be encouraged to please, obey our Lord!

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Why read Proverbs? (part 4)

:to give prudence to the naive, knowledge and discretion to the youth.

We are all children of God and must rely on this divine perspective of wisdom thats necessary to handle life's issues.

Its where the rubber meets the road!